New Los Angeles, its back protected by the Salton Sea, was, like the original one, subjected to a pincer movement which strangled the promising life from it before it was two years old.
The weed had flung itself upon Pasadena and was curving back along Huntington Drive, while to the south the opposing pincer was feeling its way along Soto Street into Boyle Heights.
After a little pause, and some anxious looks, he dashed up a ladder that rested against a low out-house, and took a large rat out of the spout, whither it had apparently escaped whilst Pincer came for assistance.
In no instance has Pincer ever been wrong, his scent is so very good.
Mr. Pincer stayed behind and made a night of it with Mr. Clodd and Bonner's clerk, at Clodd's expense.
Mr. Pincer this time allowed himself a glass of weak whisky-and-water, and sipped it with an air of doing so without prejudice.
Then Mr. Pincer rose and spoke slowly and clearly.
Pincer un coup de sirop, to be slightly the worse for liquor, or slightly “elevated.
Pincer de la guitare, or de la harpe, to be locked up in jail, to be “in quod.
If later on the large pincer is again cut off the process is repeated and the original dissymmetry is restored.
He stood aside, with the globular weapon of the ray in a pincer hand.
His largestpincer bit into my shoulder; his hollow shout resounded.
From the head spring two great, crablike, pincer claws.
The first one I met instantly rose upright at the surface of the water, and when I made an advance it sprang half way out of the water and cracked its pincer claws together as if supposing it would reach, or at any rate frighten me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pincer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: astringent; clamp; pincers; styptic
